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Panel focuses on turning biomedical advances into reality

April 3, 2008

$500K helps MIT walk the talk on energy conservation

Institute retrofitting buildings with green technology

April 2, 2008

From left, MIT freshman Daniel Sauza, sophomore Stephanie Brown and seniors Ceryen Tan and Joyce Chen (in mask) work with materials science and nuclear engineering professor Linn Hobbs to cover limestone blocks with mortar as they build up their pyramid on the sixth floor of Building 16.

Gathering 'concrete' evidence

MIT class explores controversial pyramid theory with scale model

April 2, 2008

The unusual geometry of this star system made it possible for researchers to discover the first evidence of the middle stages of planet formation. Above, one star rises above the obscuring disk of matter, and its light becomes visible.

Catching planets in the making

Team sees first signs of formation's middle stages

April 2, 2008

Theodore Lilienthal's photos, examined in a new book by MIT's Gary Van Zante, presented post-war New Orleans businesses as good investment opportunities, bustling yet orderly. Pictured here is the Drummond & Doig Foundry. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('nola-boiler-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Looking back at the Big Easy

April 1, 2008

Two MIT student projects win peace grants

April 1, 2008

Faculty approve exploratory subject, Pass/D/Fail measures at March meeting

March 31, 2008

Pedro Reis, an instructor in applied mathematics at MIT, and colleagues have reported the formulation and physics behind the pattern created by adhesive tearing. In this image, Reis demonstrates the way that adhesive tape tears in a triangular shape coming a point.

Researchers make a point of explaining 'the wallpaper problem'

March 30, 2008

Engineering again tops U.S. News graduate rankings

March 28, 2008

CDC chief Gerberding to speak at MIT April 2

March 28, 2008

MIT third overall in Putnam math competition

March 27, 2008

Schmill named new dean of admissions

March 24, 2008

Professor of Archeology and Ancient Technology Dorothy Hosler, back left on the raft, helps row a raft built by four of her students in 2004. Leslie Dewan, standing, recently worked with Hosler to show how similar rafts carried goods through the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans.

Floating a big idea

MIT demonstrates pre-Columbian use of rafts to transport goods

March 19, 2008

An artist's representation of a proposed satellite that would be used to view distant planets. A planet is transiting a star in the background.

MIT aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help

March 19, 2008

Bringing a bit of MIT to Africa

March 19, 2008

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Researchers make a point of explaining 'the wallpaper problem'

Engineering again tops U.S. News graduate rankings

CDC chief Gerberding to speak at MIT April 2

MIT third overall in Putnam math competition

Schmill named new dean of admissions

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